I arrived at the village in the early afternoon. The women, those old enough to carry a basin on their heads, were still not back from river. They chose to walk the 15 miles to the nearest river for water because the large pond that sat only four hundred yards away from the western most [...]
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Back in the 80′s, in Upper Volta (now called Burkina Faso) my friend an I visited the capital Ouagadougou. We needed to visit every three months in order to fill up on supplies. In Ouaga, as we called it, we stayed in air conditioned hotels, ate steak and pizza and filled duffel bags with canned [...] Boy. I don’t know, I’m just mad at my mother. I don’t know, she just, uh, she calls me up the other day. She wants to borrow ten dollars for some food! Can you believe that? I said, “Hey! I work for a living! So I loan her the money. Yesterday, she calls me up [...] My first year in the Peace Corps I battled all the usual harpies: boredom and loneliness; fuel and food shortages; mosquitos and amoebas. While those were formidable, the lack of water tormented me most. Even during the rainy season my fifty-gallon drum was often empty. Because of unreliable electricity and poor, and mostly non-existent, infrastructure [...] Sid is driving in his brand new Ford Fairlane (new for him, anyway). Out of the radio speakers rasps “Tiiiiiiiiiiiime is on my side. Yes it is. Tiiiiiiiiiiiime is on my side. Yes it is.” He can almost feel Mick’s blubbery lips slap the microphone. It’s his favorite song after I’m a Loser by the [...] A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there’s my personal favorite, the male ego.– Roseanne Barr Now what is [...] When Goldilocks entered the home of the three bears she had a choice. Why she decided to illegally enter the home of three omnivorous quadrupeds in order to take a nap is a topic for another time. Her thrill seeking behavior aside, I want to discuss her choice of bed to take her nap in. [...] “My grandmother, she passed away at Christmas time. So now, I have this built in sadness, you know, every holiday. ‘Cause I’m plagued with the thought of, you know, what she would have given me. ‘What didn’t I get to open this year?’” – Laura Knightlinger, taken from the Comedy Central web site. We finished [...] I wish I had eyes like a chameleon. Did you know they can move their eyes independently of each other? They can track a buzzing fly that’s high and to their right and a crawling caterpillar climbing up the tree, below and behind them. At the same time! Wow! That would be so awesome. Not [...] I served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ghana from 1982 to 1985, first as a teacher then as a supervisor on a rural development project. After my service, I stayed on for another year as a contractor. Looking back, I’m not sure why I joined or what I expected when I did. I do [...] |
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